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Google The Latest In Growing Spreadsheet List |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 09 June 2006 |
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Page 1 of 2 Google may have all the branding, but when it comes to
online applications the search giant isn't the only one in the game. There's a
growing list of online spreadsheeting websites that let you calculate, graph,
share and even republish your spreadsheets on your website.
In addition to
the growing list of online spreadsheet websites offering free Beta services,
there's also a long list of word processing sites that offer similar online
applications for free.
Some have bugs, crash occasionally and may not be a
substitute for a hard drive loaded applications like Microsoft Office of
OpenOffice, but the signs are positive that these software-as-a-service sites
will play a serious role in application delivery for mobile workers and
collaborative projects, as well as for home users that don't need all the bells
and whistles of a traditional application.
The applications on most of these websites do not qualify as
Open Source, but they usually offer free access accounts and usually commit to
always providing an entry-level service.
Here's a quick run down (in no particular order) of some of
the free online office productivity applications Mobilised has identified.
Zoho
Sheet
This web based alternative to traditional spreadsheet applications, like MS
Excel or Openoffice Calc, providing basic spreadsheet functionalities coupled
with web based features like sharing, tagging, publishing and more...
NumSum
A place to do simple, sharable web spreadsheets online. The company plans to
release a paid for version in the future, but commits to always providing basic
spreadsheeting for free.
iRows
This spreadsheeting site aLLOWS you to edit, compute, chart, sort, incorporate
dynamic web data and even publish the sheets dynamicalls on a web page.
WikiCalc
WikiCalc is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than
just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and
multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data
organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to
basic web server space accessed by FTP and there is no need to set up
server-side programs like CGI. It can, though, run on a server and be used with
nothing more than a browser on the client.
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